This easy-to-use, practical guide helps runners safely build strength and endurance, get motivated and set realistic goals, choose the proper footwear and clothing, eat right, and avoid injury. Completely updated, this fourth edition contains a wealth of new material. A revised RunWalk program gives runners a choice between running 10K or covering the distance by running and walking. A whole new chapter on preparing for charity runs reflects the popularity...

In Eat and Run, ultrarunner Scott Jurek opens up about his life and career as an elite athlete, and about the vegan diet that is key to his success.

In Feet Don't Fail Me Now, running and music columnist Ben Kaplan describes how to train for a marathon in one year, even if you have never run before. Based on his own experience transforming himself from an "average guy" into a dedicated runner who qualified for the Boston Marathon, the book provides a week-by-week training program, split into four three-month sections — each concluding with a race from 5 kilometres

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"This book is an in-depth guide for training young runners of all abilities. It shares with the athletes and their coaches not only what it takes to become a top runner but also how to maintain a positive attitude, how to non-intrusively integrate training into their daily lives, and how to truly enjoy the act of running."--

Have you ever run in a big race? Do you have a best friend that you like to do everything with? Most of all. do you like  to have fun? If the answer is yes, then you are ready to meet Tua Tee, his best friend Super Cooper and their fried Sophie. Today is the annual Fun Run at Blueberry Falls Elementary School, and they need you to come along and help them run the race of a lifetime! So put on your fastest shoes, stretch out your toes, and hurry to...

"An elite marathoner describes the year she spent running over 3,500 miles in nine different countries, living with host families and exploring diverse running communities and cultures all over the globe,"--NoveList.

"Olympic athlete Jeff Galloway shows how amateur runners can use the same training principles followed by world-class runners. He tells beginners how to get started, explains his ideas on stress and rest, and reveals secrets for running better. In this completely revised and updated new edition of the classic text on running, Galloway includes training schedules for 5k, 10k, and the increasingly popular half-marathon races, as well as recent insights...

All sports have pivotal moments, single events that change perceptions forever after. For the sport of running, such a moment occurred on a blustery May afternoon in 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. This is the story of that epic run. Today, fifty years later, lovers of the sport-runners and non-runners alike-will be moved by this modest but impassioned story of one of sport's true heroes.

The Olympic runner offers women advice on training and running marathons.

A step-by-step training program for adult women of any age at any fitness level who want to train for a half marathon. "Using Jeff Galloway's proven Run Walk Run(R) method, this book offers a step-by-step program for woman that will get them started with weekly training. The training plans follow the run-walk-run format, allowing the runner to increase her mileage while decreasing her time, safely and effectively. An added benefit of these training...